The notorious Auschwitz has become symbolic of the evils of the Holocaust. More than one million people d ...

The notorious Auschwitz has become symbolic of the evils of the Holocaust. More than one million people died in its confines during the period from September 1940 to January 1945. The site has been tu ...

On this day in 1941 Catholic priest and Franciscan Conventual Friar St Maximilian Maria Kolbe died in the ...

On this day in 1941 Catholic priest and Franciscan Conventual Friar St Maximilian Maria Kolbe died in the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz. Kolbe became one of most prominent saints of the 20th ce ...

The infamous doctor Josef Mengele, nicknamed "White Angel" and "Angel of Death", became a medical officers in the largest Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz on this day in 1943. Mengele completed two ...

The high-ranking Nazi and commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Rudolf Höss, was arrested on thi ...

The high-ranking Nazi and commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Rudolf Höss, was arrested on this day in 1946. It is interesting that he managed to hide on German territory for as many as 11 ...